AncientPages.com Archive

AncientPages.com - Ancient Romans loved boxing. The sport kept their soldiers fit and it was good entertainment the public enjoyed watching. There are many boxing scenes depicted on Roman

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Thousands of ancient ceremonial pipes have been found in North America. What makes the spider pipes unearthed in Tennessee unusual is not only their

AncientPages.com - Thousands of years ago, there was a mysterious European culture known as the Vinca culture. These people left a legacy in form of valuable artifacts covered with

AncientPages.com - Beautiful Isle of May is today inhabited by sea birds and seals and the remote island is owned and managed by Scottish Natural Heritage as a National Nature Reserve.

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Dutch archaeologists have studied two fascinating Ice Age finds found at the bottom of the North Sea. One of them is a rare

AncientPages.com - King Ferdinand of Aragon's secret coded letters have puzzled historians for centuries. King Ferdinand and his commander Gonzalo de Córdoba used a mysterious coding system consisting of

A.Sutherland  - AncientPages.com - A new study of Sumerian clay tablets has provided scientists with valuable information about medicine in Mesopotamia. As previously discussed on Ancient Pages, medicine

AncientPages.com - Legendary pirate Black Sam , sometimes nicknamed the 'Robin Hood of the Seas' was an English pirate who operated in the early 18th century. Researchers have discovered a shipwreck near

AncientPages.com - The mysterious sand mounds in and around Mapoon, in north-eastern Australia have long been a subject of controversy. Are these puzzling mounds natural formations or were they

AncientPages.com - DNA studies reveal that people in Britain had blue eyes and dark skin 10,000 years ago. Who were the first people to arrive in Britain and where

AncientPages.com - During excavations of an ancient Egyptian city at Tell Edfu in southern Egypt, archaeologists from the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, unearthed well-preserved settlement remains dating to an important

AncientPages.com - The Black Death is one of the most devastating plagues in human history. The Black Death, started in the Gobi Desert as a minor disease known as Yersinia

AncientPages.com - Over 7,000 stone tools were unearthed in excavations at archaeological site at Attirampakkam, about 60 kilometers from Chennai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - There is plenty of evidence that our ancestors much more advanced than we previously thought. The use of electricity is supposed to be a

AncientPages.com - Using LiDAR (light detection and ranging) technology researchers of Ithaca College uncovered thousands of new Maya structures previously undetected beneath smothering vegetation. The survey of encompassed Several